Sayed Hussein Anwari

Sayed Hussein Anwari (born 1956) was Governor of Herat Province from 2005 to 2009 in Afghanistan.

Biography
Hussein Anwari was a Qizilbashi Tajik who was a Shi'ite, and fought in the Soviet-Afghan War in the 1980s. From 1992 to 1995 he served as Minister of Social Affairs and Labor under the Islamic State of Afghanistan, but when the Taliban took over in 1996, he became a leader of the rebel Northern Alliance. After Kabul was retaken in 2001, he returned to politics and from 2005 to 2009 served as Governor of Herat.